The Dallas Cowboys got embarrassed at home by
the Buffalo Bills on Thanksgiving Day, over whom they were a 6 ½ point
favorite. The Bills wiped up the floor with them. I am sick to death of the
Cowboys. I’m sick of their underperforming players, sick of their incompetent
coaching staff and sick of their owner/general manager/media hog. I am also
sick of hearing about Dallas’ vaunted offensive line. I see other teams’ lines
keeping our defenders off their quarterback, but I see Dak Prescott running for
his life consistently. And when Prescott
gets pressured, he too frequently coughs up the ball or throws a pick.

The Cowboys are still favored statistically to win the
NFL East Division. (As Mark Twain said, there are lies, damned lies and
statistics.) I don’t see how anybody who has watched this team play could think
so. The Philadelphia Eagles, Dallas’ rival for the Division title, has a
much easier schedule than the Cowboys, and I don’t think the Cowboys are
finished losing yet. It could all be over before Dallas plays the Iggles in
Philadelphia in a few weeks.

The only silver lining in this sorry season is that I
think Jerry Jones must fire Jason Garrett now. It is no longer tenable to keep
any of these sorry coaches and still say you are interested in winning another
Super Bowl. Jones is fond of saying he owns and team and gets to make the
decisions, but he still must show his face in town and presently he does that
at the risk of being made fun of in public. But what good coach would work for
Jones?

Shame on this whole damn
organization.

My beloved Oklahoma Sooners handled the Oklahoma State
Aggies with relative ease, as I expected. As I have opined
previously, I don’t worry about OSU anymore. In recent years, they have had the
best teams they have ever had, or ever will have, and we have been able to beat
them. They’re not going to beat us with what they are producing now.

That said, OU won the
game in their typical, less than ideal fashion: superb offense, though with
less than perfect play calling, and mediocre defense. In fairness to the
Grinch, the defense is playing with more spirit and aggression, but they still
can’t tackle worth a damn. I stopped counting the times a Sooner was in
position to make the play and whiffed on the tackle.

Thinking about this
weekend, I’m not particularly worried about Baylor either. We beat them
without Cee Dee Lamb during the regular season, in a game when Jalen Hurts had
the worst half of his football career. Neither of these is going to be the case
in the Championship game. I feel bullish.

Which brings us to
the prospects for making the playoffs, which I still think is a long shot, but
no longer out of the question. Things continue to fall into place, but will it
be enough? Assuming everything else follows the chalk (upsets are not out of
the question for some higher ranked teams, but I’m not counting on it), if
Oregon upsets Utah, I think we’re in. If Utah beats Oregon, it will be a beauty
contest between them and Oklahoma. I don’t know how that may work out.
OU will have played and beaten more, higher ranked teams than Utah has faced,
but maybe the committee will want a new face in the playoff mix. OU is still
the more interesting option, though.